Dispatch From The GOP Braintrust
When you read the next quote, please keep in mind that Michele Bachmann is thinking about running for president.
Speaking at an Iowans For Tax Relief event, Bachmann (R-MN) also noted how slavery was a “scourge” on American history, but added that “we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.”
“And,” she continued, “I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly — men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country.”
John Quincy Adams was a zombie! He was a zombie because he cared so much about ending slavery. He should thought of that whole Civil War thing much earlier. Oh well, it’s not like people think the founding fathers were perfect or something.
Shockingly, it is true that Q was anti slavery….. Just like his father. John, Ben, and a few other Northern Continental Congressmen wanted slavery abolished with the signing of the Declaration. They saw the disconnect of “free equal men” owning slaves. B,ut the ancestral Teabaggers from the South… Washington and Jefferson included, could never part with their “property”. In order to get the required unanimous consent for the DoI, they had to compromise on human life in order to appease the southern conservatives.
And note how Bachmann neatly elides the blood spilled in the Civil War — it as though these people have no sense of history beyond the mid 1800’s. They also have no sense of the fact that these founders that they revere wouldn’t be caught dead with a modern teabagger.
Samuel Adams would.